This thirteenth edition of the OECD’s Global Insurance Market Trends provides an overview and assessment of developments in the insurance industry in 2022, using data from the OECD Global Insurance Statistics (GIS) exercise.
For several decades, the OECD has collected and analysed data on insurance markets in member countries, including on the number of active companies and their employees, insurance premiums and payments, and portfolio investments. Over time, the framework of this exercise has come to include key items of the balance sheet and income statement of direct insurers and reinsurers.
The geographical reach of the insurance statistics database has also expanded. In addition to OECD countries, this edition also covers a number of non-OECD Latin American countries (through co‑operation with the Association of Latin American Insurance Supervisors, ASSAL) and selected non-OECD jurisdictions in Asia and elsewhere.
Global Insurance Market Trends and its associated database represent a rich source of comparable, global cross-country data on insurance markets. They provide a comprehensive source of information that can be used by governmental authorities, the insurance sector, research communities, and consumers.
This report was prepared by Romain Despalins under the supervision of Timothy Bishop and Pablo Antolin from the Insurance and Pensions Unit of the OECD Directorate for Financial nand Enterprise Affairs (DAF). The report benefitted from comments by Serdar Celik, Head of the Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Division in DAF. Eva Abbott, Meral Gedik and Flora Monsaingeon-Lavuri provided editorial assistance.